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			<h1>Cat mints</h1>
			<p>Day 00159: Thursday, 2015 August 13</p>
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	One of the nodes requested by the Minetest engine is <code>default:nyancat</code>, a reference to the poptart cat meme.
	I&apos;m not really into memes though, so if I&apos;m building my own subgame, I don&apos;t want to include memes.
	I still want something rare and valuable to take the place of this node though, and I finally decided on one possibility: a plant with a reference to cats in its name.
	After looking at a few options, I decided the most feasible, as far as my drawing skills are concerned, was the flower of a cat mint plant.
	Cat mints are a group of plants named because of their effects on felines, the most well-known member of this group being catnip.
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	I set cat mints to spawn once in about 1024 blocks but never more than once per map chunk.
	Additionally, they spawn only in air right above solid nodes, though they spawn both in caves and on the surface of the world.
	However, due to a flaw in the way I set up the randomization, I think the exact probability of a cat mint spawning is effected by the block size setting.
	if the Minetest <abbr title="application programming interface">API</abbr> works the way I think it does, then when the block size is set to five (the default setting), cat mints will spawn once in every 1000 blocks, which is the same frequency at which minetest_game&apos;s poptart cats spawn.
	THis means that cat mints are equally rare as poptart cats, but easier to locate.
	In order to make them even easier to locate for testing purposes, I set them to glow at maximum brightness so I could spot them quickly while flying through the ground.
	I like the effect though, so I might leave the glow in effect.
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	I decided to move my home out of the tunnel and to another dungeon, this time closer to the spawn area.
	This one only spawns with a single room, and is never above ground, but at least the condition it is in is more dependable than the first dungeon I wanted, making it easier to plan around.
	The dungeon still isn&apos;t perfectly reliable though, and sometimes doesn&apos;t spawn at all.
	If it does spawn in the server world, I think I&apos;m going to build a house on top of it and have the dungeon room be the basement.
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	Near my proposed hose location spawns one of the new cat mints, right on the cliff overlooking the nearby frozen river! Sometimes the cat mint instead spawns <strong>*in the middle of*</strong> the frozen river, but it&apos;s always somewhere near by and easy to find.
	A second cat mint spawns just across the river and is visible from the location of the first.
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